The qualities of a great man are often federative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atheist's Mass] Reference

In what provision does the federative principle appear?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference

Also, note that none of the other 14 Republicans were "federative.".    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Again Refers To Czechoslovakia, A Non-Existent Country] Reference

But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

It was the deliberate homage of each people to the great principle of our federative union.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Now the interests of the Kurdish people is in the framework of a united, democratic, federative Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2007] Reference

Even for strictly federative purposes the conditions do not exist which we have seen to be essential to a federation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Government] Reference

It has been remarked, that the federative principle of the old system has been to some extent retained in the constitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference

And, conveniently, it prefigures the kind of panarchist federative approach to dealing with common issues among parties who disagree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Open thread on: localism, decentralism, anarchism, thick conceptions of libertarianism, and the U.S. Constitution] Reference

Whatsoever directly involves the rights and interests of the federative fraternity or of foreign powers is of the resort of this General Government.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

Judt therefore suggested taking the one-state solution seriously, and considering a federative structure could unite Israel and Palestine into one state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carlo Strenger: Tony Judt's Testimony on his Jewishness] Reference

Finally I call upon Czechs, Slovaks, and members of all national minorities and ethnic groups to accept our federative state as their common task and common possession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making the History of 1989] Reference

As our boundaries have been enlarged and our agricultural population has been spread over a large surface, our federative system has acquired additional strength and security.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

The right of suffrage and the mode of conducting the election are regulated by the laws of each State, and the election is distinctly federative in all its prominent features.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

The experiment of a great federative republic -- or, one might say, of a great republic, whether federative or otherwise -- was held to have been tried, and to have broken down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference

The larger national units had a more or less federative quality, the components yielding some of their functions to a central power, but retaining numerous independent functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference

German federative act guaranteed the grant of constitutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4] Reference

There were twelve Tuscan cities united in a federative alliance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. $c By Wm. C. Taylor.] Reference

England by a federative alliance; but they rejected the proposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands] Reference

Its aim is the organization of a federative council of the churches of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] Reference

Mr. SEDDON: -- Is not the whole machinery of the Government federative?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861] Reference

His earliest scheme was that the federative plan should be presented to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liberation of Italy] Reference

It was also agreed to issue federative paper notes to an extent not exceeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)] Reference

The choice of the federative system is the backbone of Şerafettin Elçi's party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rastî] Reference

They said the Democratic Autonomy Project was not suggesting any federative structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rastî] Reference

The imperial system in France is as legitimate as the federative system in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny] Reference

The federative system or state system is not being mentioned for the first time in this country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rastî] Reference

Her scheme was federative, like our own, in which the provinces of France should have the status of states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs] Reference

Now, almost half of the world's population is governed by federative systems and they are living in good shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rastî] Reference

Our first essay, in America, to establish a federative government had fallen, on trial, very short of its object.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1] Reference

The federative assembly passed judgment against the duke solely in reference to his attacks upon the king of England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4] Reference

Notwithstanding the constitution, notwithstanding the guarantee given by the federative act, liberty of the press did not exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4] Reference

The result might have been, with the lapse of time and the increased activity of the disease, to place the capital of our federative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies] Reference

Every member of the federative assembly at Frankfort gave his assent, with the exception of the Freiherr von Wangenheim, the envoy from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4] Reference

Austria was to be reconstituted according to the federative plans of the late Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to be made stronger than before as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference